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A) Please use the term "government-run health insurance" or, when brevity is a concern, "government option," whenever possible.

B) When it is necessary to use the term "public option" (which is, after all, firmly ensconced in the nation's lexicon), use the qualifier "so-called," as in "the so-called public option."

C) Here's another way to phrase it: "The public option, which is the government-run plan."

D) When newsmakers and sources use the term "public option" in our stories, there's not a lot we can do about it, since quotes are of course sacrosanct.

When the most often viewed "news" channel premeditatively works to deceive it's viewers for the sake of very rich people, the same rich people who determine the policies of the Republican Party.....there's bound to be negative results. The midterm-of-ignorance was that negative result.

2) The midterm-of-ignorance, helped along by very evil, shameless, conscienceless people working in conservative media, will set the nation on a destructive path where the only choice will be gridlock or hostage taking.

Republicans have already made it clear that destroying another Democratic president is job one in the Senate.....and that compromise is not a word that will ever be used in the House. That leaves gridlock, or capitulation by Obama and the Democrats to new and exciting hostage taking demands. Demands to help out the powerful even more while setting the not-so-powerful back even further.

Within this freak dynamic......and based on the "deal" made at the end of 2010......it is entirely possible that for the first time since FDR put in place the backbones of American economic security, our "bipartisan" leaders will agree to start dismantling those bones. Not strenghthen them....dismantle them.

The stage is now set, as it was in 1994, for a further plundering of America's future for the sake of a tiny segment of the filthiest of rich.

That is why, sad to say, I have picked the midterm election as the story of 2010 which will have the most impact moving forward.

Having said all of that....I sincerely hope your personal New Year is a Happy one.